Poser Over Security At Nigerian Airports

THE arrest of a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, over an attempt to blow up a United States Airliner belonging to Delta Airlines, has raised fresh concern about aviation security in not just Nigeria alone but all over the world.

Mutallab was said to have departed Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to Amsterdam en-route Detroit. He was reported to have boarded Royal Dutch Airlines KLM flight from Lagos to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to Detroit, without being detected by aviation authorities in both Nigeria and Netherlands.